Anyways, I think most people should pray. This is because most people (not all) turn to prayer when all else fails, or there are no other options. When you have a terminal diagnosis, or when the plane is going down, you pray. That's completely normal. I even pray when my son is on bat, he's had two strikes and the bases are loaded. So, considering that most people will pray when the chips are down, it would be hypocritical not to pray when things are going well. So I pray then too. I pray a lot.
In fact, the only time I don't pray is during davening, then I'm too busy mumbling silly words to pray.
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"We cannot make God visible to us, but we can make ourselves visible to Him. So we open our thoughts to Him.
To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain the sense of the mystery that animates all beings.
Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living. It is all we can offer in return for the mystery by which we live. It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
Prayer teaches us what to aspire for. So often we do not know what to cling to. Prayer implants in us the ideals we ought to cherish.
The focus of prayer is not the self…. It is the momentary disregard of our personal concerns, the absence of self-centered thoughts, which constitute the art of prayer…. Thus, in beseeching Him for bread, there is one instant, at least, in which our mind is directed neither to our hunger nor to food, but to His mercy. This instant is prayer..."
AJ Heschel
As usual, Heschel's tiresome psychobabble doesn't stand a prayer.
"too busy mumbling silly words to pray"
Might be time to invest in the Metsudah Linear Siddur.
JP - you are a dweeb. XGH is clearly knowledgable and well-versed the tefilot. It is terribly sad that the words no longer resonate (besides she-hame mishtachavim, which a true Opraxer can skip).
"Might be time to invest in the Metsudah Linear Siddur"
I did! That's how I know the words are silly.
Try meditation. Less nonsense, more benefit.
Have you ever read anything about this group?
http://www.uua.org/beliefs/
www.dmuuc.org/message/jewishroots.html#axzz1LthyfqIh
"I did! That's how I know the words are silly."
Yes, especially words like
יְהִי רָצוֹן מִלְּפָנֶיךָ ה" אֱלֹקי וֵאלֹקי אֲבוֹתַי שֶׁתַּצִּילֵנִי הַיּוֹם וּבְכָל יוֹם מֵעַזֵּי פָנִים, וּמֵעַזּוּת פָּנִים
What do you pray to?
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